Planning bill would allow builders to 'pay cash to trash' nature, say UK experts

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Exclusive: plan to let firms sidestep environmental laws by paying into nature levy would add cost and delay, says letter to MPs Leading economists, former government advisers and ecologists are calling for a key section of the government's planning bill to be changed because it creates a "licence to kill nature".
52% : They say it allows companies to sidestep environmental laws affecting their project by instead paying into a national nature levy.
50% : Dasgupta told the Guardian the nature levy allowed companies to "buy out" of existing nature obligations and effectively removed decades of nature laws.
50% : "Part three of the bill will cause economic harm by introducing overlapping and clashing nature laws, and slowing development with complex viability-based levy systems that critically undermine the investment case for nature in the UK," said Dasgupta, the author of a once-in-a-generation review of economic policy commissioned by the Treasury in 2019 which said nature was a crucial asset, and its decline was undermining economies and wellbeing.
49% : "Now regressive laws are being quietly accelerated through parliament with no public consultation, impact assessments or pilots.

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